Scrap the Rape Clause

I have launched a campaign which calls on the UK Government to scrap its proposed “rape clause” in its benefits policy. In the Chancellor’s budget in July 2015, buried within the small print, the UK Government plans to restrict child benefit to two children and force women to provide evidence of exceptional circumstances, such as rape, to claim tax credits for a third child from April 2016. I believe that women having to prove that they had been raped to DWP employees in order to receive social security payments is morally wrong and would cause needless additional trauma, as well as being completely unworkable in practice.